It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear colleague and friend, Dr Peter Duncan. Professor Simon Dixon pays tribute to him here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Join us for this seminar with Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos to hear more about his book 'The Interpreters' which offers a new interpretation of the cultural and intellectual exchanges between Britain and southeastern Europe in an age of imperial transformation. 🗓️ 3 March at 6pm ➡️ buff.ly/3FH0K8u

Book launch of “Happiness” Tues 10 March, 7-8.30pm Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

Make the best use of our libraries and resources. Find out more about our guides and training to develop your library and information literacy skills. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/learning-teaching-support

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

Why does the most famous poem in the #Polish language open with the invocation ‘Lithuania! My Fatherland!’? Please join us for Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski's Inaugural Lecture to find out more. 🗓️ 11 March at 6.30pm 📍 Gustave Tuck LT ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Check out our #NewBooks display on the Ground Floor of the Library! 📚📚📚😊

📣 Forthcoming free afternoon talk! 18 February, 3 - 4:30pm In Search of Amnesia is a documentary project looking into the Jewish narrative in Poland and Ukraine. Through this new book Falk traced both his own personal family history and the collective loss Tickets 🔗

🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES. 📍 Location: London (hybrid) 🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026 🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026 ➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🔊 There’s still time to register today!

🔊 There’s still time to register today!

Trying to access books, journals or electronic resources in our libraries? Find out more about available guidance here. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/finding-resources

📚 UCL SSEES Library Academic Book Display — International Day of Education 2026 📚 Celebrating learning and area studies at SSEES with titles across history, politics, culture, language, and more. 📱 Scan the QR code to explore UCL Press e-books by SSEES academic staff.

🔊 Due to high demand, this event will now be livestreamed online Join us for an exploration of how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging. 🗓️ 3 February at 5pm ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🎥 Join us on Monday for the SSEES Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Caroline Damiens, who will explore how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in #Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980. 🗓️ 26 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🎬 SSEES Film Festival! Vol 1: "Resistance" will bring a powerful lineup of films that explore courage, resilience and the fight for change. Screenings are free and open to all. 🗓️ 25 Feb - 25 March 📍 UCL Main campus ➡️ Register for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🔊 Bracewell Travelling Scholarship  The Bracewell Travelling Scholarship is funded by a gift from SSEES Emeritus Professor of History Wendy Bracewell, whose research examines South Slav history, and travel writing in eastern Europe. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 April ➡️ Apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Lots of #NewBooks - for a new term and a new year. Come and borrow one soon! 📚📚📚🎉

🔊 Last few tickets left! Please join us tomorrow to hear more about Jakup Azemi's 'The Making of Modern Kosovo'. ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

One month to go… UCL turns 200! 🎉 On 11 February, we kick off #UCL200 – a year of celebrations marking our radical founding in 1826 as London’s first university, open to all. Expect parties, exhibitions, student festivals, art, books, performances, and more. Get ready! @uclspeccoll.bsky.social#UCL200

This morning we welcomed librarians from the House of Commons Library. We enjoyed exchanging professional experience and showing them around the SSEES library. We also put together a small display of items from our unique special collections for them to explore.

Happy New Year from snowy SSEES! ❄️ We are still on our vacation opening hours this week - 10:00-19:00, Monday-Friday only. Term-time hours and Saturday opening will start again from Monday 12th January.

Season’s Greetings from UCL🎄 UCL will be closed from 5:30pm on Tuesday 22 Dec 2025 to 9:00am on Monday 5 Jan 2026. Students can access support services during this time. 🔗 More details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing-services/about-us/closure-periods-2025-support-and-services

Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social. 🗓️ 14 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Explore migration’s impact on societies and cultures with our open access reading list for #InternationalMigrantsDay. 📚 Free to read and download: uclpress.co.uk/internationa... #OpenAccess #MigrationStudies

Great news! 🎉📚

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews. Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160

Term ends today, so here are details of SSEES Library's opening hours over the Christmas break. (Please note that we will be CLOSED tomorrow!) You can check the opening hours of all UCL libraries online at: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

It's never too late to return that long overdue library book! 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As we wrap up another incredible year, we’re proud to look back at the milestones that defined SSEES in 2025 🎉 Read the full article here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Here are our opening hours over the Christmas and New Year break. For other UCL libraries, please check www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

CFP: "Contested Realities: Paradigm Shifts in the SSEES Region," a special issue of the UCL SLOVO postgraduate journal. Submissions from graduate students are welcome by February 1 to <[email protected]>. More information available here: https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/slovo/news/88/

A lovely find in our Russian section today... "Birds in front of the microphone and camera", published 1972, and inscribed by the authors with a dedication to "friends and nature lovers". The book comes with a recording of birdsong - side 1 "Birds of the White Nights"; side 2 "Talking birds". 🐦🦆🦜🐤

Here's a selection of #NewBooks added to the Library's collection recently. As always, check out our display on the Ground Floor of the Library. 📚📚📚

Library Skills training sessions are open for bookings. Find out more and get research support online or in person. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills

🔊 One week until this book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood. 🗓️ 4 December at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social

Understanding copyright is a key part of information and digital literacy. Find out more about our available training to support your study and skills development. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/learning-teaching-support/ucl-copyright-advice/copyright-training

Here's a selection of the #NewBooks we have added to our collections recently. 📚📚📚🙂

Here's a selection of the #NewBooks we have added to our collections recently. 📚📚📚🙂

Great idea. We should put on our own exhibition one day 😁 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are pleased to invite you to this Politics and Sociology event with author @joannalillis.bsky.social. Please join us to hear about her new book 'Silk Mirage' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. 🗓️ 27 November at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from our unique archive collections! Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi

Why is Kazakhstani nation-building so unusual? Please join us for the book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) by @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social to find out more. 🗓️ 4 December at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering. Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social. 🗓️ 14 November at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6

Improve your library skills and make best use of our resources during your studies. Sign up for a session here: https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills

Do check out this *absolutely amazing* volume on Jewish spaces in postwar Poland by UCL @uclhjs.bsky.social and Bartlett graduate Natalia Romik (Warsaw), published yesterday. Big congratulations from a very proud former co-supervisor :-) Open access from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...

Please join us for this SSEES Cinema Research seminar with Dr Alina Legeyda, who will explore Soviet and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian films “set in the past but haunted by the present”. 🗓️ 10 November at 5.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @rachelmorley.bsky.social

We were delighted to welcome new undergraduate students at the UCL SSEES social event, where we talked about the library collections 📚and skills training. 1st-year students, join us for the next social on 26 Nov, 3pm in the Masaryk Common Room to explore databases 🔍 for journals, newspapers & more!

We are marking #GreenLibrariesWeek with a small display of books on the nature and environment of Eastern Europe. Do check it out if you are in the Library this week! 🪴🌿♻️📚😊

It's #GreenLibrariesWeek this week - a time to celebrate libraries and all they do to promote sustainability. At UCL SSEES Library we participate in the Green Impact programme, which challenges us to put sustainability at the heart of everything we do. 🌱🪴🌿📗♻️